Hi Brandon,
since our patches are very similar, they should be a good way to fix this issue. For me it's working since 7 days now without a harm.
See: http://markmail.org/message/p736w5f4dmamfnom
Ralf
Brandon Davidson schrieb am 23.09.2009 03:41:
Hi all,
We recently attempted to update our Dovecot installation to version 1.2.5. After doing so, we noticed a constant stream of crash messages in our log file:
Sep 22 15:58:41 hostname dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=<USERNAME>, method=PLAIN, rip=X.X.X.X, lip=X.X.X.X, TLS Sep 22 15:58:41 hostname dovecot: dovecot: child 6339 (imap) killed with signal 11 (core dumps disabled)
We rolled back to version 1.2.4, and installed 1.2.5 on a test system - something we'll have to make sure to do *before* rolling new versions into production.
Anyway, after examining a few core files from the test system, it looks like the recent changes to the quota plugin (specifically the maildir backend's late initialization fix) have broken the other backends. Stack trace and further debugging are available here: http://uoregon.edu/~brandond/dovecot-1.2.5/bt.txt
The relevant code seems to have been added in changeset 9380: http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-1.2/rev/fe063e0d7109
Specifically, quota.c line 447 does not check to see if the backend implements init_limits before calling it, resulting in a null function call for all backends that do not do so. Since this crash would appear to affect all quota backends other than maildir, it should be a pretty easy to reproduce.
I've attached a patch which seems to fix the obvious code issue. I can't guarantee it's the correct fix since this is my first poke at the Dovecot source, but it seems to have stopped the crashing on our test host.
Regards,
-Brandon
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